It is still an easy pick-up if the RNC and Rove’s PAC gives him back the funding they were going to provide. If the seat is lost, it’s entirely their fault, not Akin’s. His gaffe was nothing so serious that it would cause him to lose a Senate race.
“His gaffe was nothing so serious that it would cause him to lose a Senate race.”
You’re right; the Republicans have let Obama’s media determine when people should be “outraged”, and this gives them influence in determining their own party’s opponents. The right has to do something on a massive scale about media control; so many of these races (especially Obama’s) shouldn’t be races at all.